Any Advice On What To Use For Fluke?

[Tarhunt]

My son, friend and I are going down to Virginia this coming weekend. We are planning to fish for fluke and speckled trout in the Chesapeake Bay. We plan on fishing in a channel nearby my mom's house. We've been fishing a lot over the years and only caught a handful of fluke. We mostly catch croakers. We use bottom rigs with squid. What else do you guys recommend that we use? I'm mostly a freshwater fisherman. Thanks.

[Lunatic]

I always had a great success with a high/low rig. I would put on top a long squid strip and the bottom was baited with gulp.

[B B]

Bucktail with gulp tipped w/ minnow

[Tarhunt]

What kind of gulp?

[GhostBear]

What kind of gulp?

4" swimming mullet in chartreuse,pink and white.

[Zipper]

Take a can of peas with you. When you get to the spot you want to fish, sprinkle the peas all around the water close to the boat. When the fluke come up to take a pea, hit them in the head with an oar, and throw them in the boat:) .......... I like light white bucktails and white gulp swimming mullets 4 inch. Good luck!

[JHbowhunter]

the fluke are smaller there - 1-2 ounce bucktails with appropriate size gulp (mullet grub eel ) and a dropper a dropper loop 12-16" above it with a jig head and another gulp.    Have fun!

[SxSshooter]

whole squid with a stinger hook.

[hammer4reel]

depending on current flow what ever size bucktail you need to stay as vertical to the bottom, between 1 OZ and 4 OZ.

5 " swimming mullet on that

and on a teaser above that use a 5"  gulp shrimp, in white , glow or new pennny.

 

on bucktail you cant go wrong with  glow or white.

 

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[Tarhunt]

Thanks everyone. I will hopefully post some photos.

[Batsto]

Observe what local dudes are using.....good luck and have a great time!

Edited August 14, 2017 by Batsto

[bigfish525]

I was down on the Chesapeake for two weeks. Fishing was the worst in 40 years. Very few croakers,weakfish,and what the hell is a fluke.

[Buck154]

Bucktail and Gulp on it and another Gulp above it just heavy enough to hold bottom close to the boat. Can never go wrong with White or glow.